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Key West Mayor Craig Cates and Commissioners Teri Anticipates a Good Year * Back in prison Coffee to go A Marathon father and daughter say their new A judge hands down a two-year sentence to an admitted drive-through coffee shop is everything they’d killer acquitted of a Florida Keys pot charge. Story, 3A hoped. Story, 5A WWW.KEYSNET.COM WEDNESDAY,OCTOBER 12, 2011 VOLUME 58, NO. 82 ● 25 CENTS MIDDLE KEYS MARATHON Zip-line course gets opposition the Caribbean, Hawaii and New group says other tourist destinations threatened bird around the globe. Curlee is one of a handful would be harmed of people to speak against the idea at recent City Council By RYAN McCARTHY meetings. The council has [email protected] applied for $735,000 in Community Development A group of Keys residents Block Grant funding through has formed a coalition, Keep the state Department of Crane Point Natural, bent on Community Affairs — now stopping Crane Point part of the Department of Hammock in Marathon from Economic Opportunity — to building a zip-line course. help build the $1.1 million “We are basically advo- course. cates to keep Crane Point nat- Keep Crane Point Natural’s ural. In other words, not with main point of contention is the a zip line intruding with the harm it says a zip line would wildlife, butterflies and birds. do to the threatened white- We’re going to lobby [the crowned pigeon. Kenneth state] against putting it in,” Meyer, executive director of Cudjoe Key resident Deborah the Avian Research and Curlee said. Conservation Institute in Zip lines are basically Gainesville, wrote a Sept. 26 cables strung from platform letter to the City Council to to platform. Riders attached that effect. to them move to each plat- “The proposed zip-line ... Keynoter photo by RYAN McCARTHY form through a pulley sys- Capt. David Jensen (right), along with mate Roman Butters, helped save the lives of the seven boaters whose vessel tem. Courses are popular in ● See Zip line, 2A overturned in rough seas Saturday afternoon. Jensen rescued three of the men Sunday morning and called the U.S. Coast Guard, which found the other four, including a 4-year-old girl. MONROE COUNTY SCHOOLS Principal out Boat tragedy could at new high school Charter schools, although Charter board independent of the district in relieves Remsen terms of daily operations, have ended worse receive their funding through of top job the district and are required By RYAN McCARTHY By most accounts, they to meet state reporting stan- Grandmother dies but Duck Key By SEAN KINNEY [email protected] shouldn’t have been out on the dards for curriculum, testing, charter captain helps rescue 7 water in the severe weather [email protected] certification and the like. Duck Key charter captain that hit the Keys on Saturday, The Collegiate School has David Jensen’s customers and elsewhere back an hour They’d been in the water especially with eight people After a hastily called 42 students in grades nine were gung ho to go fishing on Sunday. So the Snapshot since noon — roughly 20 on a 22-foot boat. weekend meeting of the Key through 12. over the weekend. left the dock late. hours — the day before. “They took a wave over West Collegiate School Jara said he spoke to the Good thing because if “We headed out late to go Gone was 79-year-old the stern. Three women and board, Principal Debra school’s board last week not, the fate of a South fishing because [the weather Zaida San Jurjo Gonzalez of the 4-year-old girl had life Remsen is out as the charter about the qualifications usu- Florida family of eight, was bad] in the morning. We Hialeah, who went missing jackets on, but the three school chief just eight weeks ally associated with princi- whose 22-foot Wellcraft ves- headed to a bait spot and I during the night. Her body males and 79-year-old vic- after the small high school pals in the district. sel overturned in choppy saw something off in the dis- has not been found. tim did not. It happened so opened its doors. “We need certain certifi- seas Saturday afternoon, tance,” he said. “When I got Florida Fish and Wildlife fast,” Dube said. Details were few on cations for our traditional would have likely turned out closer, I saw someone wav- Conservation Commission Dube said the women and Tuesday and messages left at schools; at charter schools, far more tragic. ing their arms. I got closer Officer Robert Dube said 4-year-old child were swept the school at Florida Keys it’s recommended but not a As it is, one person, a and there were three people Gonzalez “either owns or away from the boat almost Community College were requirement. I think [board grandmother, died. on board. We threw life jack- rents” a home in Layton and immediately after it cap- not returned, but Monroe members] are questioning Jensen told the Keynoter ets to the people.” that the family launched sized. But the men were able County School District that.” he almost always leaves his Jensen had spotted the from there. The family was to hold onto it. Superintendent Jesus Jara He added that members of Hawks Cay Marina dock at 7 three men with no life jack- fishing at the Tennessee Reef Jensen pulled up along- confirmed the vote was for his staff, including Executive a.m., but weather pushed the ets clinging to their capsized Lighthouse around three side and one of the victims “resignation or suspension of Director of Operations Theresa group of friends from boat near the Tennessee Reef miles offshore in rough seas the principal. They have Axford, visited the Stock Virginia, New York, Missouri Lighthouse off Long Key. when the boat took on water. ● See Capsize, 2A advertised for a new princi- pal position at the school.” ● See Principal, 2A FISHING THE FLORIDA KEYS Hone your cracking skills: SWORN IN Stone-crab season starting Fishermen’s Association. Just one claw is harvested majority of whom also har- Keys account “The prices will be up more from each crab, then the crab vest stone crab for majority than in previous years and the is thrown back so it can For lobster — the season supply will definitely be up.” regenerate the claw, which started Aug. 6 and runs of the harvest Last season, stone crab takes about a year. through March — Kelly went for as high as $9 per Kelly says that’s why it’s said, “We’ve had ongoing Keynoter Staff pound (prices vary depend- “a very sustainable fishery, problems with trap theft and ing on the size of the claw), because the animals aren’t we’ve been working with The seven-month stone- up some $3 from the previ- killed. You turn the crab so [the state Fish and Wildlife crab season starts on ous year. the crab actually releases the Conservation Commission] Saturday, and the chief exec- About 900 fishermen har- claw; you don’t actually pull on hot spots. We have some Keynoter photo by SEAN KINNEY utive of the Keys fishing vest stone crab in the Keys, them off. It’s a downward areas where the theft rate is Sworn into office on Tuesday at Old City Hall are (from left) and around 65 percent of all action; the pressure actually 30 percent. Traditionally, fleet’s trade group says he Key West Mayor Craig Cates and commissioners Teri anticipates a good year. stone crab harvested results in the crab releasing we’re talking 8 to 10 per- “It looks like the demand statewide — the annual it; it rejects the claw.” cent. That’s about half a mil- Johnston and Tony Yaniz. Cates and Yaniz defeated will be there,” said Bill Kelly, average is 3.2 million However, trap robbing is lion lobster, and with today’s challengers in the Oct. 4 election, while Johnston and executive director of the pounds — comes from always a big problem, just as Mark Rossi were re-elected unopposed. Rossi didn’t Florida Keys Commercial Monroe County waters. it is for lobstermen, the ● See Stone crab, 3A attend Tuesday’s ceremony. INDEX Printed on 100% Classifieds . .5B recycled Lobster No parking newsprint Living . .2B CONTENTS © 2011 charges relief Business . .5A KEYNOTER PUBLISHING CO. Obituaries . .2A A Miami man faces Despite pleas to stop, several charges after the U.S. Postal Service Opinion . .4A being found with nearly will continue towing Sports/Outdoors . .1B 300 illegal lobster in cars from its Key West Layton. Story, 3A lot. Story, 2A Crossword . .4B 7786790 22222 2A Wednesday, October 12, 2011 KeysNet.com Keynoter NEWS BRIEFS TOURIST DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL EVERGLADES Biker airlifted Scott seeks delay following crash County to allocate A Big Pine Key motorcy- on ’Glades cleanup clist was airlifted to a Miami TDC funding Associated Press In an April ruling, he said hospital early Tuesday morn- the state has “not been true ing after a car drove into his DAC 1. $44,647, DAC 3. An important deadline in stewards of protecting the path on U.S. 1, the Florida Key West gets ● MRM Key West LLC ● Pigeon Key Founda- Everglades restoration efforts Everglades in recent years.” Highway Patrol says. most money for the Key West Food and tion, not to exceed $14,415, — already pushed back four Reducing phosphorous Troopers say Jean Wine Festival, not to exceed DAC 3. years — would be postponed levels requires building Philippe Quietstorm, 52, was from bed tax $25,000, DAC 1. ● Keys Area Inter- another six years under a pro- 22,000 acres of stormwater riding a 1997 Harley ● Bauer Restaurant for denominational Resources posal made Thursday by treatment areas to filter Davidson north on U.S.
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